You can get binary distributions from the CPAN site too (the Perl Ports
(Binary Distributions)).
Hence my question. What is the difference between the binary ports that
Activestate provides
and the binary ports that CPAN provides? Over and above the Perl
Package Manager and the
Windows-specific modules for the Windows Activestate Distribution?
Seems to be a duplication
of effort
Tony
Jan Dubois wrote:
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, Anthony R. Nemmer wrote:
Just out of curiousity, how do the Activestate releases of Perl differ
from the releases of Perl that you can get from CPAN, understanding of
course that the Windows Activestate Release will have Windows-specific
modules that the other Activestate Perl releases won't have.
The ActivePerl releases are binary distributions; you don't need to
compile them yourselves. They come either as a platform native install
package, or as a tarball with an install.sh install script.
ActivePerl also includes the Perl Package Manager that allows you to
install additional modules (and all their prerequisites) from a repository,
so you don't have to build them yourself.
It also contains a full set of HTML documentation for Perl and all
included modules.
In the end it is probably a question of convenience.
Cheers,
-Jan
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